Minghao Lin, tenure-track Associate Professor in the Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Prior to the current position, he earned his PhD degree in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and then continued his research in Germany as a Humboldt Postdoc Fellow, supported by a series of competitive grants such as Cambridge Oversea Trust and Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grants. His research focuses on ancient exploitation of animal resources, the development of Chinese early civilisations, and prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchanges of species and technologies.